I was not prepared for *JOHN WICK* 

Man I didn't know this until now...that hurts a lot

Would be super fucked up to heart this comment but it's true.

@@eXpriest please don’t heart it😢

It didnt look like that for me.

@@arno_nuehm_1 The blood trace is seen on the floor.

Truth.

I definitely wasn't

Purely true. Like, it changed action movies fundamentally. Just look at all the movies that copies its style afterwards. It probably changed the genre and the industry.

Yeah I thought it sounded dumb I'm not gonna lie 🤣

@Diego Santos It was directed by a career stuntman, which is why all of the actions scenes are just so... perfect!

This has only been done in two movies I know of. This one and equalizer. Of course equalizer did it in a more low key way

Not to mention the interaction with Jimmy 😂

Yeah, the poor fella seems to be unfortunately typecast into this sort of character. I just wanna see the kid play an HONEST character, that everyone likes, for once! lol

@@jacob4920 He was a pretty nice guy in Jojo rabbit! Granted, he was also a Nazi. But let's not nitpick.

I've nailed that role in real life, too bad i can't get paid for it

@@theexiled3034 Same

He started early as a puppet. Check out the video for Lily Allen's song called Alfie lol

😭😍

@@thishandleisntavailable861 I don't know of a specific page/article that lists all of the information together. I got the information from various articles over time. You should be able to find it all with some searches. The choice of Andy as the dog was from a USA Today interview where the directors themselves spoke about it. Plenty of pictures of Andy on the red carpet if you do a quick search. There are multiple cast/crew interviews where they talk about the actor having a tough time with the killing scene. I don't remember where it was published, but the information about Andy being adopted was from Andy's trainer. The trainer personally knew the adopting family.

He went through a lot of specialized tactical training for the movie.

Dogs can't defend themselves like people can.

He said 27 kilograms, which is the number of bodyguards inside.

The bouncer was played by Kevin Nash, a former pro-wrestler. During an interview he said the exchange between him and Wick was code, and Wick thanked him by giving him the night off, ie not killing him.

I highly doubt Daisy was able to crawl, that hit was instantly lethal. It looked more like they kicked the body to John, leaving the blood trail while sliding over the floor. Yeah, that made them even more deserving for what they got. Anyone else thought 'headshot' on the guy playing the shooter game …?

@@ShinoNC I wonder if the scene with John stabbing the big russian guy in the shoulder was an homage to Nash's accident in "The Punisher"?

@@Stephanie-es7wv Yeah the translated subtitles notoriously ruined the scene

and also, the guy in the door in the club says he lost 60kg and that the number of guards inside

Um, no. He said he lost 60 kilograms, not pounds. 60 guards on duty.

@@TheManlyVIK the subtitle says 60lb, but listen to the dialogue. He actually says in Russian "27 kilogram"

@@mallenwho Ah you're right. I guess I remembered what he actually said, "kilograma" so I thought in my head he meant kilograms. My bad.

No, he said 20 kg in Russian. They just did a horrid job of converting it. They could have said 45 lb in the subtitle and it would have been mostly accurate and not seemed out of place.

4th movie coming next year

@@w1975b I can`t wait any longer, I want to watch it

That's why I like this and the Equalizer so much.

@@marinebttlemechanic THIS. i love seeing the protagonist being feared for once, the only difference between the two is that on one hand John wick makes people shit their pants cause they know how much of a fuck up they did angering him. On the other hand in the equalizer the protagonist isn't really known so they expect for him to be a fairly normal individual but as the movie progresses they realize how much they too did fuck up.

Not me really, I saw the first one, and it was great, but he was lucky in the first one, the guy that was supposed to kill him after the opportunity was presented turned out to be on his side, meaning if it was someone else, he should have been dead. So when the 2nd or 3rd came out, I really didn’t care that much, and the story is no longer there, he is just someone who goes on rampage killing people for nothing. Even the first story make no sense to me, a very rich kid wants to show he is a gangster by stealing someone’s car and killed a puppy? Like, which part of it makes him worth more as a gangster, you can hire a boost team to get the car whenever he is outside, or just boost another similar car, or buy the damn car from a collector. His father had more common sense to go for bigger impacts, his son goes to downgraded version. Like a king goes to conquer lands, while a prince goes to steal a stallion. Da-fuq?

Agree. She was also just a puppy and robbed of her full life but as you say John didn't get that time with her like his wife had wanted for him.

Not only living but it was also helping him cope and deal with the lost, not go back to what his previous live was.

@@AugustoEL its why i liked that he picked up another dog at the end of the movie., like he still tried to fill in the blank space by replacing it with another dog.(well that is just how i percieve it of course)

@@redsampler2017 oh yeah the poor dude does not want any shit, he just wanted to be left alone with his doggo, but shit had to happen.

@@AugustoEL yup the gasstation scene it reminds like that scene from high plains drifter ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q_iFpchZe20.html , dude just went to a bar to get a beer and a bottle of whiskey and a peacefull hour to drink it in... but yeah they couldn,t let him be..💀 ive seen enough such situations and shit stirring people in my life.(yeah sure go poke the bear why don,t ya?) and they all gonna meet someone someday that is the wrong person to be messing with, its like a universal law..

Show me greatest line of exposition, without any exposition!

He's the one you send to kill the boogy man!

@@Smido83 damn straight!

I call BS on that, just trying to hype him up. No way you could kill more than 2 men in a bar with a pencil...

@@chrissheppard2150 there will be a callback to this line in the second film.

Ok... you win the internets today! 🤣

"I understood that reference."

I met Keanu (and Lawrence Fishburne and Carrie Anne Moss) during the filming of The Matrix Reloaded. I was Security Supervisor for a warehouse, and they used half of it as a sound stage. Keanu wanted to give me one of the Aprilia motorcycles they used in a chase scene. A true gentleman, and a wonderful human being.

And then he adopted the puppy too

He did? I didn't know, that's pretty cool actually!

Also the dog didn't really die. He's just a great actof8

@@babayaga96792 And the poop was cgi

@@dr.burtgummerfan439 It's the little things we'll never forget.

That's really interesting I never would've caught either of those

yea i remember they explained it in a interview. i never knew why they emphasized it so much until that

Whoa, I never realized that first detail. He even puts emphasis on the word sixty both vocally and it's bolded in the captions. That's cool.

John also lets himself get stabbed in the stomach which has a high chance of survivability, in return for stabbing Viggo in the main artery that sits right below the colorbone, which will kill you in a matter of seconds.

Another code some people miss is the "dinner reservations". 12 at John's house and the man at the hotel desk asking John if he will need a dinner reservation - for Perkins.

holy shit!! never noticed that thx!

Oh damn, i didn't realize that!

Lol no

@@brizzle711 watch the kevin nash interview on his role in jon wick

Yeah In Russian he doesn’t actually say 60 like the subtitles, he says the precise number of men that John fights inside

Reeves really works at that realism and his trainers say he could run the pro circuit.

Seriously. Those details are part of what makes this what it is. Along with the dedication and training that Keanu committed to. They didn't make him look good with camera angles, editing, and stunt men. He was just that good.

Oh. And the long takes during the action. No cuts, no breaks.

True!

Don't forget the bullet count, it's satisfyingly accurate

"It was at that moment he knew... his son fucked up."

R.I.P. Michael Nyqvist. Excellent Swedish actor who passed away in 2017 at 56 due to lung cancer. We miss him :'(

The "subtitle" was wrong... sort of. What Francis actually said was 27 kilograms, which works out to a bit over 60 pounds. There were 27 of Viggo's people in there.

Searched for this before saying it...

@@jodonnell64 to be precise, he said "more than 20 kg", IIRC

@@jodonnell64 Ahhhh thank you, that helps put things a lot more clearly. I'll edit my comment with your correction!

@@jackhealy3328, You are all men of culture in this thread. Of course, Europeans speak "metrics" - so it is the English subtitles that lost the plot.

Without Marcus he would be dead, so that undermines the scene for me.

@@Matej_Sojka But Marcus wouldn't have been watching out for him if John wasn't the kind of person that he was.

I knew it reached a bigger platform when famous EDM DJ's used those lines in his intro before beginning his session at the major edm concerts some years ago.

@@Matej_Sojka I'm thinking that it was more than professional courtesy between Marcus and John. I'm thinking that it was personal. There's a brilliant backstory there that may come in a later installment (perhaps in JW4). Willem Dafoe is so awesome.

Exactly. Not just an assassin. But the assassin's Assassin.

Yes he did. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xii9_oWQ7HY.html

Just like how he really learned martial arts for the matrix movies. Keanu takes method acting to another level lol

I like the directors quote about his training "The best way to fake being good at it is to just... be good at it"

27 kilograms. (so, 27 and not 60). But yes.

@@QuayNemSorr It's because the subtitles listed it in standard even though the guard actually says 27 kg. You can see the subtitles in that scene, if you don't blink.

Francis actually says 20 kilograms in Russian.

Who ever said that too you is a horrible person

lmao, i was just told by my friend to watch it 2 days before part 3 , telling me to watch this and part 2 back to back to have part 3 next on the theatre

@@a.mseymour180 at some point you forgot to delete this horribel reply, but it's not too late.

Hehe... This movie is made by stunt folk... and as far as I've heard, the actors they've cameo'd were all actors who were like "oh hell the stunt crew? They make ME look good, I wish t'hell I could do a tenth of what dey do" (and in many cases devoted part of their own salaries to them) over the years. So these guys (and gals but mostly guys) get together and say "we want some of the old school action movie stuff, today. We're all painted out, or replaced with CGI, and yet we STILL take the hits on the day and get less and less respect. We're people of focus, of commitment!" They made John Wick. A mortal god, a normal man with aimbot, a man who doesn't take anyone's shit because he's got so many No. 2s that he kills people with them. He's a reflection of them. It's also part of why incoming vehicles aren't part of his jutsu, his peripheral only sees fists and bullets. Jokes aside, most stuntmen are de facto martial artists of great skill, and their very job demands they endure pain. Like John, they get beat to pieces and get up repeatedly to finish the job. So these people, these hard ass crazy people, create this character and world that's a very respectful salute to their profession and the actors who have respected them... ...they take this man John, and go... "...so how do we ACTUALLY hurt this man?" They take away the only woman he has ever loved and has loved him, and the last gift she left for him in an attempt to save his soul. So the next time you wonder what real men are? They're the folk who love their family and their f*cking beagle puppies, and they WILL kill for both.

@@wren7195 Someone has a hard on for stunt people 😂😂😂

And the end scene where he stabs himself in order to break Viggo's arm... he already had a stitched up wound there, so he wasn't really doing much additional damage. He merely re-opened the existing wound, then stapled it up a few minutes later. Small detail, but it shows his skill in quickly assessing damage versus reward and doing what needed to be done to win the fight quickly.

Exactly. The way he was stabbed you can see him controlling the entry point. He was also on pain killers from the doc to boot. In the scene where Perkins hits him in the wound he was prolly still feeling the effects of the local as well.

@@Mr.Ekshin it's a cool scene but also massively idiotic.

Then that's even more brilliant, because the movie/story came full circle.

@@crankfastle8138 - If it were you, you'd have aimed it at your head... where it wouldn't damage anything critical.

Yeah, there is nothing John can do to the bad guys that feels like it goes too far in light of what that punk did. Really important when you consider the amount of people he takes out and how brutally he does it. It's heartbreaking, but you kind of need something that harsh to justify it emotionally

I absolutely love how we get a movie where the villains are scared of the protagonist and you understand their fear, but likewise are happy to see them in fear.

There are people on here disputing that, but they are over thinking idiots.

a pure case of "Show, don't tell". You get a lot of world building and character from seeing them interact with one another, instead of been told and fed the reasons why they know each others and why they act that way.

I think it's blown a bit out of proportion with the amount of random Assassins we see on the streets.

@@rc59191 Not so random. They're all called for a purpose, in all three movies -- to make a lot of money eliminating one of the most dangerous men in the world.

I think it’s the fact that Winston and a John are actually friends, just like the bartender called him Jonathan as well

it's the side characters that really make the movie work. There is no exposition, everybody just talks and acts like this is how the world works, so even if you don't know the details, you believe it

And not once do I remember a pointless never ending monologue of explanation or exposition, a lot of it is shown as it happens. And the few times things need to be spoken, it's done naturally, thanks to the actors being generally pleasing on screen and speaking like humans would.

I agree. It feels a bit like a world just beyond our perception, as if it's hiding in the shadows of our world. It gives it great texture, like it's just believable enough while stretching what the audience will accept as based in reality. There've been a couple of movies that also felt like they could somewhat fit into others corners of the world created in John Wick. "The Night Comes For Us" is one from Indonesia, and there was about a female assassin, I think it was Korean but I'm completely blanking on the title, that I think really fit. I'd love to see more even unofficial movies that fit the mold in that way, as I think it's a really interesting "crime world" they've come up with.

I think one of my favorite "world-building" scenes is the cop who comes to talk with John about the noise complaint. It's brief, but it says so much about the character and the world he's in with few words. "You working again John?" It tells you this is not a man to be trifled with. Even the cops know not to get involved. This underground world of serious assassins just gets better and better as we are brought along for the ride. We also get the pencil trick...the Joker ain't got nothing on John Wick.

Thought the same 😂

Prop Guys: How many knives will we need for this movie? Chad Stahelski: Yes.

@John Casamassa she would be scared of a pencil

@@anuragkshirsagar1589 a fuuuuking pencil

more like Pencil: Am I a joke to you?

Apparently, the actor who pretended to kill the dog was real shook up about the whole thing, and spent the rest of filming playing with the puppy.

@@WisteriaDrake yeah Alfie Allen is a real sweetheart

Same here and Perkins's demise.

When I watched the first movie I was pretty convinced it had to be based on a comic series or something. The world just seemed so detailed, like there had to be backstory there.

Bs. Nash made that up.

@@willdallas53 who the fuck is Nash? Also call bs all you want, that's actually the reason

@@criseist9786 Kevin Nash is the name of the actor/retired professional wrestler that played said guard.

@@DrLipkin Kevin Nash was also in The Punisher with Thomas Jane He played a character called "The Russian." In one scene, a stunt went wrong and Thomas legit stabbed him with a dull knife. Kevin Nash, being a wrestler, no-sold it. Then pulled out the knife (which was dumb, you should let medical staff do it) and stitched himself up with super glue. That's the scene they used in the final film and you can see the look on Jane's face of horror of what he just did, but it works as it plays as shock on Frank Castle's face of "Oh, this guy isn't going to go down."

@@willdallas53 If you make the conversion of kg to lbs he would've lost 132lbs. That's a lot of weight to have lost and still look the way he did and is less believable than if he was informing John of how many guards are inside

John Wick 4: You really like pain, do you?

John Wick: You did this to you. John Wick 2: I did this to me. John Wick 3: We did this to us.

@@ZachLorton yeah consequences of our own actions aint it

John Wick: Fuck this glass John Wick 2: Fuck THIS glass John Wick 3: Fuck ALL this glass as well

john wick 5: ok you guys are you trolling me now

The whole reason Francis was spared was because he gave that intel.

Yep this was confirmed by the actor who played Francis, Kevin Nash, in an interview.

Francis actually says 20 kilograms (DVATtsat') which would be 44 pounds. 27 would be DVATtsat' SYEM' and would have pretty much matched the number of security who were killed. The english translation is wrong and makes it harder to realise what information Francis gives.

Wow, I didn't realise that. I thought it was another example of everyone in this world knowing one another well.

Even worse, a puppy. Extra innocent. Right after that happens, the graves of those who were involved are already dug in your mind.

It’s not just because it was his dog it was the last gift by his wife to him and the dog represents his wife’s wish that John find some happiness after she has past.

Well, wife and kids worked for the Punisher. But I like the point, the revenge motivation has to be pretty strong for something like this. And the protagonist being stronger than the antagonists works because John is established early as a paragon type character who starts the movie as already the best of the best at what he does. The great obstacle is killing all of them, not killing one of them 😄

Well, it is always good to watch a professional at work

even tough john is stronger than his enemies, he still get his ass kicked a lot, its ok for your hero to be stronger than the vilain, as long as you pu your hero in a clear disadvantage, that shos that he has to use his wit, rather than his power, to overcome the odds, also, john doesnt do it alone, he has help, another thing that is good to show your hero's human side. about the dog, the thing is, a dog, specialy a pupy, is a pure thing, with no evil, is like killing a baby, you're killing something that never commited a sin, you're destroying a pure soul, so we're all on board with "divine punishment" for those who ruin pure souls.

If anything the story's have been watered down.

Same, I'd kill the world for my dog. I get it.

Exactly. They don't spell it all out for you with a bunch of exposition. They just drop some clues and trust the audience to be intelligent enough to piece it together for themselves.

Yep, love how they give it to you in small pieces.

Same the John Wick movies are rad

I made the mistake of binge watching all 3 films back to back. By the time I made it to the 3rd film, I was emotionally numb. It was like the rule of cool had left me with a concussion.

it's not going to be a trilogy anymore next year, fourth one is coming

@@sebastianwiton2907 hell yeah and i'm excited. This time i'm gonna watch that one in theaters for sure.

@@duckway4733 I would hold off on that excitement...almost never does the 4th movie in a series land well...just saying.

He says 60kg, not 60lbs

The subtitles are actually incorrect. In russian he says 27kg which translates to 60lbs.

That's hilarious 😂😂😂 and true.

Oh no, not the knives, I hate knives more than guns. proceeds to stab everyone in the room.